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Terrorist sympathizer. Just look at how killing all these innocents is terrorizing the poor Israeli snipers. Clearly all Gazans are terrorists, and anyone who supports them are barbaric sympathizers, and always anti-semitic yes.
Edit: if anyone wants to learn more about the history of this conflict, I can't recommend enough the book "Righteous Victims" by Benny Morris, an Israeli historian who is as objective an author as you can find on the matter.
<em>A Peace to End all Peace</em> by historian David Fromkin covers this in great detail. It's a great read if you want to be sad and angry and confused.
The 1842 retreat from Kabul, as previously said was one - 18,500 men, women and children killed in 6 days with one lone survivor. If you want to read a wonderful, fascinating book about it check out the award winning ‘The Great Game’ by Peter Hopkirk, which details the British-Russia fight for India, which mostly took place in Afghanistan. https://www.amazon.com/Great-Game-Struggle-Central-Kodansha/dp/1568360223
Not just that,Nazis (specially hitler) have some sympathy about turkey,Let me explain further; both nations(turks&germans) was an allie in WWI and both lost and capitulated ,But later on turks gain their independence under kemal's leadership and his vision .Those developments are followed by german people day by day on newspapers .Overall turkey was a role model for germany so they see turkey as a natural allie not an enemy but turkey cleverly protect its neutrality.For more information about nazi-turk relations ,I suggest read that book : https://www.amazon.com/Atat%C3%BCrk-Nazi-Imagination-Stefan-Ihrig/dp/0674368371
There is a really good book about the creation of the modern Middle East called "A Peace To End All Peace"
Read it a and find out how the English, and somewhat the French, made a complete mess of the Middle East. A lot of our problems today in the Middle East can be pinned on the English.
>I would not necessarily claim that Attaturk was somehow behind the nazi ideology.
He was an influence on it though. There are books about it.
https://www.amazon.com/Atat%C3%BCrk-Nazi-Imagination-Stefan-Ihrig/dp/0674368371
It is great that you are interested! If you would like to read more, I would recommend the book Destiny Disrupted by Tamil Ansary. It gives a good overview of Islamic history up to the modern day. Amazon link
I didn't read it yet. It was recommended by Muslimmatters.org: http://muslimmatters.org/2014/07/30/book-review-lost-islamic-history/
Here is another book:
- <strong>[Book] Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes</strong> - Tamim Ansary, for people looking for a comprehensive-but-approachable way to look at world history through the lens of Islam.
Fantastic book to read on the subject: A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East.
https://www.amazon.com/History-Jews-Paul-Johnson/dp/0060915331
Here's a good book for you, and one that was written with modern research. I've actually read this one believe it or not!
In Tashkent, yes absolutely. Its actually fascinating how Russian policy to central asia stayed exactly the same from tsar to soviet administration. (I love this book: The Great Game ). But Kyiv has been part of the Russian sense of Russia for longer than the US has been a going concern; Russia traces itself back to the Kievan Rus'.
One alternatively could assess the Ukrainians inherited the hardass part of the Red Army that gave me nuclear war nightmares growing up, and the Russians inherited the part of the Soviet command economy that makes punchlines.
You mean to say that the Muslims in the region (not just Turks by the way) that took advantage of slavery were killed or expelled when independence was achieved after centuries of taking advantage of the native population?
Do you know why the slayings from 1453-1820 are not talked about and/or considered genocide? Because there were plenty. You see, those aren't even contested as genocide because they take into account the fact that those massacres were a means of conquest (by Turks) and not solely carried out for ethnic cleansing based on race -- though they were many times based on religion.
If you don't understand the difference between the reclaiming of native territory and the forced migration and mass slayings of native populations based on race (not just Greeks & Pontians, but also Armenians and Assyrians) then nothing I can say can help you.
There's a reason Hitler and the Nazis used Turkey's handling of the native populations as an example to follow, and praised Ataturk for his ruthlessness on the matter.
>Hans Trobst, wrote explicitly about Turkey’s “national purification” of
“bloodsuckers” and “parasites” like Armenians and Greeks; Trobst was
later invited to meet with Hitler after the leader read his writings on
Turkey. Ihrig notes that Hitler’s secretary wrote to Trobst in Hitler’s
name, declaring, “What you have witnessed in Turkey is what we will have
to do in the future as well in order to liberate ourselves.”
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>-Ataturk in the Nazi Imagination
By the way even the article you linked has a disclaimer about it being biased since 2018, but I'm sure that can just be ignored.
I second this. It is well-written and a good introduction.
"World histories" have been criticized as being too Eurocentric. I agree.
Two books can help correct this myopia.
Destiny Disrupted: World History Through Islamic Eyes
Big History by David Christian. This history starts with the origin of the universe. This views human history in the biggest perspective. I listened to the author's Great Courses lecture series on the topic.
I can recommend Peter Hopkirk's book - he has written several other books about the history of the area as well
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A couple of months ago I read The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf.
I liked it a lot, and it does exactly what the title promises: using almost entirely non-European sources, it tells the story of the Crusades from the perspectives of the Arabs (and Turks and Mamluks etc etc) who got invaded. As a history of the Crusades it's incomplete because it doesn't tell the whole story, but it's not supposed to. It's supposed to give you a picture of the situation in the Middle East for the two hundred years or so that the Crusades lasted, and doesn't really care too much about European politics, other than to explain why things happened in Syria and Anatolia and Egypt the way that they did.
I recommend reading Destiny Disrupted.
Europe didn't catch up to the middle east and China until about the 16th - 17th Century.
The Siege is particularly important because it held the Ottomans back from taking over the Mediterranean. Had they won, the Turks could have invaded Sicily and Southern Italy. They potentially could have snuffed out the Spanish Empire before it really got going. Then much of Europe would look like the Balkans today. It's arguably as important as the Siege of Vienna, another massive and stunning Ottoman defeat. One Christian victory was the gateway to central Europe and the other, Malta, was the gateway to Southern Europe. Empires of the Seas puts the battle into perspective and how important it and the later Lepanto were.
That would be nice to put, but... history is a "bitch"
Nazi and Turkish ties in many aspects are covered in this book.
It was not that "play both sides" thing
A very interesting time in history. That figure could be (actually looks like he's) holding a sceptre.
Recommended reading:
For the history part I would recommend a one-volume history of the Jews, of which several are available, such as Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews (1988), an easy read and a best-seller for a time: https://www.amazon.com/History-Jews-Paul-Johnson/dp/0060915331
<em>Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes</em> by Tamim Ansary is neat and gives a good overview of Middle Eastern/Islamic history up to the modern day. Not sure about books on the caliphate(s) specifically though.
There's also Tim Mackintosh-Smith's <em>Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires</em>, but that starts out before Islam even. Still really fascinating, but a little dense.
It's so comforting to talk to people who sees Islam as it is. By the way, I'd like to suggest, besides the videos and books by Dr. Bill Warner, an author who, despite being a Christian and a Trump supporter, is a lucid analyst of the Islamic conquests. I'd especially recommend two of his books: Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West https://www.amazon.com/Sword-Scimitar-Fourteen-Centuries-between/dp/0306825554/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=raymond+ibrahim&qid=1630528564&s=books&sr=1-1
And The Battle of Yarmuk: An Assessment of the Immediate Factors behind the Islamic Conquests https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Yarmuk-Assessment-Immediate-Conquests/dp/1725826631/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=raymond+ibrahim&qid=1630528598&s=books&sr=1-3
I am currently reading Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes. I am nearing the end of the book. My reading has just reached World War 1. The author has been explaining why European domination of Middle East governments and the economy in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries convinced some Middle Easterners to adopt a more Western lifestyle even one hundred years ago.
For anyone with a little time and curiosity, the book "A Peace to End All Peace" is a terrific read on how these various "country" boundaries were drawn after WWI, pretty much at random, setting the stage for thde following 100 years of conflict - https://www.amazon.com/Peace-End-All-Ottoman-Creation/dp/0805088091/
Reading list recommendation:
Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West by Raymond Ibrahim
Very well researched and cited. See Amazon reviews for salt.
Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West Hardcover – Illustrated, August 28, 2018 by Raymond Ibrahim (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Sword-Scimitar-Fourteen-Centuries-between/dp/0306825554/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Sword+and+scimitar&qid=1602939529&sr=8-1
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise Kindle Edition by Dario Fernandez-Morera (Aut https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Andalusian-Paradise-Dar%C3%ADo-Fern%C3%A1ndez-Morera-ebook/dp/B01AL2SP76/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1602939605&sr=8-1
Jihad is consistent with the many Arabic influences in the book... but yeah, I get that term has a negative connotation in much of the Western world
As a noteworthy paradigm-shift, it's interesting that the term crusade has an equally negative connotation in much of the Muslim world. Excellent book on the topic here
You guys lezem taqraw kteb essmou Disrupted Destiny: Disrupted Destiny
The same goes today, w Touness was not fi planete walla dimesnion wa7ad’ha. Colonization, like slavery, was systematic (moumanhaja).
It's just a videogame. Also Assassins didn't work the way you see in the videogame. The name come from Hashish, the drug. They used to get heavily drugged and perform assassinations on Friday outside the mosquee, to spread fear. But they were always suicidal missions.
Templars (more likely crusaders) often paid them to perform assassinations, but they weren't natural enemies/friends.
If you are interested in what happened in the middle east during the Crusade period, i highly reccomend this book:
https://www.amazon.it/Crusades-Through-Arab-Eyes/dp/0805208984
In here you can find a VERY cool story between crusaders and assassins, when they tried to siege the secret assassin base.
All the rest is just pure imagination.
Templars are overrated, they were just a commercial company who sponsored and organized crusades (like the administration and finance office in a business). The most interesting part is all the treasures they collected that were seized by Filippo il Bello (Philip the handsome? idk the translation) because they were becoming too powerful and there were no more crusades to do.
Sorry for broken english, not my language and i can't be bothered to properly translate